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TuxGuitar – Open Source Tablature Editor

admin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 01:03:17 +0000

TuxGuitar, an open source tablature editor, is an music composer and player. The editor can be used to compose music using score and could be played back as midi file. The editor has multitrack display for different instruments, fret board view and matrix editor for percussion instruments. The editor has autoscroll feature for simulaneous playback. The editor has standard music notations as well as various effects like bend, slide, vibrato, hammer on/pull-off, time signature and tempo management. The editor can import and export gp3,gp4 and gp5 files. The music can be exported in Lilypond, MusicXML formats to name a few.

Download TuxGuitar here

Metronome Online

admin — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:17:06 +0000

Metronome is a device used to produce audible beats at regular intervals usually used to produce a steady tempo measured in beats-per-minute (BPM). Its an invaluable tool for musicians during the music creation process.

The good folks at eMusicInstitute have created an online version of metronome, Metronome Online, which provides a dead simple and useful interface. Just select the BPM and press ON and it’s done. It provides a range from 40-208 BPM. The website also has few articles on how to use the metronome and practice music using it.

Another website, Web Metronome, provides the same functionality.

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Frets On Fire: Open Source Guitar Hero

admin — Thu, 29 May 2008 14:52:48 +0000

Frets on Fire is a music video game in which users use the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song. The game is developed by Unreal Voodoo and is a clone of the popular Guitar Hero console game.

The game features a unique inverted keyboard which emulates a guitar, with one hand pressing the fret buttons and another pressing the pick button. The game has a song editor to add your own songs and can also import Guitar Hero I & II songs. There are hundreds of songs available for download and you can also compete with others in the World Charts.

FoF is a multi platform game and can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD.

Download Frets on Fire.

Hydrogen: Drum Machine

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 02:06:37 +0000

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux and available on Linux/Windows/Mac. The main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

The drum machine features a pattern sequencer with unlimited patterns and ability to chain patterns. Capable of handling upto 64 ticks per pattern and 32 instruments with multi layer support. The software has some unique features like unique human velocity, human time, pitch and swing functions.

The website has downloadable drum kits like Roland, Yamaha, Boss etc which could be used to create rock/metal, techno music and even has Indian tabla under the ethnic hiphop drum kit.

Download Hydrogen [Release 0.9.2]

Frets On Fire: Open Source Guitar Hero